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Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... in 2013, much lower than our Asian neighbours. In particular they expect pay rate jumps to be 13% in Vietnam, 11% in Indonesia and India, 10% in China, 8% in the Philippines and 6% in Malaysia. But unless surveys like this take even basic measures like ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... nationality I choose. Philippine GDP jumped by a better than expected 7.1% in the year to the third quarter - better than Indonesia's 6.2%, Malaysia's 5.2%, Vietnam's 4.7% and Thailand's 3.0%. More, according to the 'Philippine Daily Inquirer', "The ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... since June, it accelerated for the first time in four months in India, increased in South Korea and further expanded in Indonesia. In America, the Institute of Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index rose to 51.7 in October - the highest since ...

Future Fund tarred by its tobacco stocks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
An otherwise robust performance by the Future Fund was undermined this week when its senior executives were forced to justify their tobacco investments before a Senate Committee. Appearing before the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Senate ...

Who you know overshadows rules: Freehills view on Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... Malaysia in particular is trying to compete aggressively with Singapore on operating and compliance costs. In contrast, in Indonesia investment funds are constituted under civil law contracts not trust law, said Fakhri Hilmi, head of the investment management ...

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... successful internet sites and replicates them in other countries. Lazada is an online department store with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. Considered to be a replica of Amazon, Lazada caters for everything from ...

IAG urges Asia focus

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... laggards. IAG is currently targeting six priority markets in Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia. Wilkins said that IAG currently has $460 million investment in five of those six countries but are yet to enter Indonesia. ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

ACCI calls for right to sue foreign govs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... signed a FTA with Malaysia and is currently in the process of negotiating agreements with China, India, Japan, Korea and Indonesia among others.

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... E. This didn't make the headlines but, there's also the brewing "food fight". Bloomberg Businessweek reports that, "Indonesia will suspend a 5 percent duty on soybean imports until the year-end after makers of tofu and tempeh halted production to protest ...